The Bush administration is urging a federal judge not to postpone the first war-crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay, saying any delay would hinder the war on terrorism (AP)."
WTF? You guys have had SEVEN YEARS!
No chance this would be a political calculation, right? Keep the "war on terror" a front-and-center issue?
That's why this makes the paper, folks!
"Video shows interrogations of Canadian at GuantanamO; 16-year-old begs for assistance in clips from 2003" by Ian Austen, New York Times News Service | July 16, 2008
OTTAWA - Video recordings released yesterday showing interrogations of the only Canadian held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba provided an unprecedented glimpse inside the compound.
The mood of the detainee, Omar Khadr, just 16 years old at the time of the interrogations, in February 2003, swings between calm and indifference to rage and grief in the recordings, which were released by his lawyers.
The video footage, which provides the most extensive videotaped images yet seen from inside Guantanamo Bay, shows Khadr pleading with a Canadian intelligence agent for help and, at one point, displaying chest and back wounds that had still not healed months after his capture in Afghanistan.
The poor-quality recordings were made by the US military, and were given to Khadr's Canadian lawyers by the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service under the terms of a court order.
They show Khadr, who is accused of killing a US soldier in Afghanistan during a battle in July 2002, being questioned by an unidentified member of the Canadian intelligence agency.
Khadr maintains that he was abused by American interrogators both at Guantanamo Bay and in Afghanistan. It appears from the recordings that Khadr initially believed that the Canadian agent had come to help him.
But Khadr eventually seems to realize that the agent is there only to extract information. Much of the material released shows Khadr, who is wearing an orange uniform, sobbing and repeatedly saying, in a moan, "Help me. Help me."
In the interrogation, Khadr says he wants to return to Canada, but the agent suggests that the situation is so good in Cuba he might want to stay there himself.
The interrogator, whose face was electronically obscured, said:
"The weather's nice. No snow."
Yup, and a WHOLE LOT of TORTURE!
Maybe this Canadian fascista wouldn't mind a seven year stay?
In the film, Khadr, who had been shot and was near death at the time of his capture in Afghanistan, repeatedly complains about his medical treatment and his physical condition. At one point, he lifts his shirt to show the agent the wounds on his back and stomach that were still not healed.
The agent, however, is unmoved:
"I'm not a doctor, but I think you're getting good medical care."
If you are not a doctor, how would you know?
Later, a sobbing Khadr said: "You don't care about me."
Amnesty International and several Canadian groups have been pressuring the Canadian government to ask the United States to return Khadr to Canada from Guantanamo Bay.
Last week, however, Prime Minister Stephen Harper again rejected those calls.--MORE--"
And this:
"3 convicted in Germany of terror plot" by Nicholas Kulish, New York Times News Service | July 16, 2008
BERLIN - A state court in Germany yesterday convicted three men, who it said were members of a terrorist organization, of plotting to kill the Iraqi prime minister on a visit to Berlin in 2004.
The court, in Stuttgart, found that the men were members of Ansar al-Islam, a radical Islamist organization that has been linked to Al Qaeda, and that they conspired to murder Ayad Allawi, who was prime minister of Iraq at the time.
The verdict, handed down just over two years after the trial began, was hailed by terrorism specialists here as a victory for German counterterrorism efforts, a sign that prosecutors could turn intelligence and widely publicized arrests of terrorism suspects into convictions in court.
You mean, like a "law enforcement" type of deal?
Germany was also shaken last year by the arrest of three men who the authorities said were in the process of planning a major terrorist attack against American and German targets, seizing military detonators and large amounts of potentially explosive chemicals.
Ansar al-Islam, which has roots in Kurdish region in northern Iraq, has been blamed for suicide bombings throughout the country."
So the Kurds aren't America's friends anymore?
Or are they?
Also see: The Consequences for Russia and China in an Attack on Iran
And check this out.
Seems like the AP wanted to tone down Bush's huge win yesterday.
Now why would they want to do that, America?
So you don't get too riled up, huh?
"Court: Detainees can fight status; But US has right to jail suspected combatants" by Larry O'Dell, Associated Press | July 16, 2008
RICHMOND - The Bush administration has the authority to capture and detain suspected enemy combatants in this country but must give them an adequate opportunity to challenge their military detention, a closely divided federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
The decision by the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit was a mixed bag - part victory and part setback - for the administration.
That sure wasn't the way it was being reported last night!
Brian Roehrkasse, spokesman for the US Justice Department, said he was pleased that the court affirmed the president's authority to capture and hold Al Qaeda operatives who enter this country.
"That authority is backed by the support of Congress and is a vital tool in protecting the nation against further terrorist attacks."
Marri has been held in a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., since June 2003. The native of Qatar was arrested in December 2001 at his home in Peoria, Ill., where he moved with his wife and five children a day before 9/11 to study for a master's degree at Bradley University.
The government says federal agents found evidence that Marri, who was charged with credit card fraud, had links to Al Qaeda terrorists and was a national security threat. Authorities shifted Marri's case from the criminal system and moved him to indefinite military detention.
I'm really tired of the "Al-CIA-Duh" bullshit, aren't you, America?
We BELIEVED ONCE, but NEVER AGAIN!!!!
Nothing but SHIT FOOLEYS!!!!
Jonathan Hafetz, Marri's attorney, has argued that Marri could not be held in military custody because he was not captured on a battlefield. The Justice Department says Congress gave the administration authority to seize and detain anyone affiliated with Al Qaeda, regardless of where they are captured.
“This decision means the president can pick up any person in the country — citizen or legal resident — and lock them up for years."
Judge William B. Traxler, who was appointed to the court by President Clinton, said Marri's detention was proper because "the war that Al Qaeda wages here and abroad may be viewed as unconventional, but it is a war nonetheless and one initially declared by our enemy."
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I give up on America's MSM, readers!
The wholesale promotion of these lies are just too much.
